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Lot 422

A Continental Flintlock Powder-Tester
First Half Of The 18th Century, Probably Italian

28 July 2010, 14:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £480 inc. premium

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A Continental Flintlock Powder-Tester
First Half Of The 18th Century, Probably Italian

Entirely of bright steel, with tapering flat body rounded at the front and numbered from '1 to '13' on one side, the indicator (point missing) attached to the ratchet wheel which operates against a spring pivoting beneath the pan, external mechanism and trigger, and tapering curved handle with fishtail-shaped terminal
24.4 cm.

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